As soon as they lost the shutdown, Democrats released previously undisclosed emails from Jeffrey Epstein they hoped would damage Trump’s reputation.
One said, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. VICTIM spent hours at my house with him, has never once been mentioned.” Another said Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with a sex trafficking victim. The third said Donald Trump “knew about the girls.”
Republicans responded by disclosing 23,000 documents related to Jefferey Epstein and accused the Democrats of cherry-picking a few messages out of context in an effort to make Trump look bad.
Among those documents is an email in which Epstein mentions that one of his best-known accusers, Virginia Giuffre, had worked at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. But, before her death, Giuffre said that she only met Trump once, that he had not been not among the people who abused her, and that she didn’t think he had known of Epstein’s misconduct with underage girls.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital: “The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”
“The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions,” she added.
“The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre.”
DAILY PRAYER: Hail Mary, Full of grace, The Lord is with Thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
CATHOLIC HOSPITALS: On Wednesday, U.S. Bishops officially banned gender transition treatment at Catholic hospitals. Bishops will have autonomy in putting the new directives into law for their dioceses. More than one in seven patients in the U.S. are treated each day at Catholic hospitals. In some areas, Catholic hospitals are the only medical centers available.
CROCKETT: One of the Left’s Trump-hating darlings has just been outed for the elitist fraud she is. Federal Election Commission filings show that Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-39) has spent nearly $75,000 on luxury hotels, transportation and security this year. While “representing” her Dallas constituents, she found it necessary to stay at luxury hotels and use limousine services to visit Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
EVERYDAY HEROES: “Am I gonna be alone?” Amy said to me the first night I took her. I grew up with little money and a loud house. When my mama passed, I helped raise my cousins. I learned early—family means staying. Years later, I started volunteering at a youth center. That’s where I met Amy, quiet and careful with her twin brothers, Micah and Miles. When I finished my foster classes, Amy was the first to move in. One night, she told me about their baby sister, Laila, placed in another foster home, almost adopted. The next morning, I called the agency. A week later, I met the couple and asked them to let the kids stay together. They agreed. Four beds. Four toothbrushes. One house is finally whole. At court, Amy looked up and said, “We don’t gotta pack anymore.”
HISTORY: During the Great Depression, widespread layoffs hit nearly every profession, including journalism. Women reporters were especially vulnerable, often the first to be dismissed when newsrooms downsized. Eleanor Roosevelt, recognizing this imbalance, took an extraordinary step: she began hosting her own press conferences, but with one condition, only female journalists could attend.
This wasn’t just symbolic. By creating a space where women had exclusive access to the First Lady’s insights and announcements, Roosevelt made their presence essential to news coverage. Editors were forced to keep women on staff if they wanted access to her briefings, effectively shielding dozens from unemployment and elevating their professional standing.
Beyond economic survival, Roosevelt’s move reshaped the role of women in media. Her press conferences became a platform for discussing social justice, civil rights, and women’s issues, topics often sidelined in mainstream coverage. In doing so, she didn’t just protect jobs; she expanded the scope and influence of women’s voices in American journalism.
ICE: On November 4 in Los Angeles, CA, ICE officers arrested Victoria Sorocean, an illegal alien wanted in her home country for premeditated murder committed with exceptional cruelty. Sorocean and an accomplice beat the victim with a stick and electrical cable before throwing the victim out a ninth-floor window. In 2013, she fled to the U.S. to avoid prison.
ICE had her in custody during the Biden administration, yet despite her murder conviction, they released her to roam free in American neighborhoods, as they did so many other criminals. Not this time. She will remain in ICE custody until she can be returned to Moldova.
SMH: Then-Rep. Duffy resigned from his position after his ninth child was born with health complications requiring open-heart surgery. By resigning rather than taking leave, he sacrificed his salary, opened up the position for someone else to take over and actually do the work, and had to find a new line of work that allowed him to spend more time with his family.
Then-TransSec Buttigieg took maternity leave after delivery of the surrogate twins he and his husband had purchased. During his time at home, he continued to draw a salary while nobody was doing his job. At the end of his leave, he returned to his job at full pay.
SOCIALISM: I saw this on Facebook – “The Left’s favorite catchphrase is ‘Tax the rich’ not ‘help the poor’ because their ideology is based on envy and resentment.”
TRANSPO: On Nov. 10, Biden’s TransSec, Pete Buttigieg, posted to X – “Why is Trump going after America’s air traffic controllers, today of all days? It’s one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums.” CLICK https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1988447535996760492 [:44] to hear Trump’s TransSec, Sean Duffy, respond.
Posted on the thread by @xLEGUS – “South Bend resident here! When Pete was mayor, there were literally potholes large enough to plant trees in, but I agree, none exist large enough to hide all of his failures. It was great for South Bend when Pete left, unfortunately, very bad for the country!”
Posted on the thread by @iamchrisbryant – “I actually was an air traffic controller- Pete shut down towers and centers during the pandemic and tried to make Western NC a no-fly zone. Hardly commendable performance.”
GRAMMY NOTES: This week, my 75-year-old husband got to climb two ladders to put storm windows back in the two windows we use for a/c. We’re looking into getting a couple of mini splits when/if Trump sends us that tariff bonus.
ARGENTINA: A currency swap is an agreement between two countries to exchange currencies for a specified period, allowing them to stabilize their currencies and manage foreign exchange risks. Recently, the U.S. signed a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina to help prop up the Argentine peso amid its economic challenges. CLICK https://rumble.com/v71jpwq-scott-bessent-educates-economically-illiterate-msnbc-host.html [1:31] to hear Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explain why this is a win-win for America, not a “bailout” to benefit a foreign nation at our expense.
DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1988038226888847434 to hear RFK’s wife, Cheryl Hines, talk with Bill Maher about how mean the left has become. I blocked a lot of hateful posters in the thread who, as one person noted, proved the point.
EVERYDAY HEROES: “My dad Jacob was only 17 when I was born—and living with Down syndrome didn’t stop him from raising me on his own. People said he couldn’t do it. Some even thought I’d be taken away. But dad never gave up. He learned how to change diapers, make bottles, and calm me when I cried. My grandparents helped at first, but it was my dad who stayed up through the nights, reading stories and singing off-key lullabies. He worked part-time at a grocery store, saving every dollar for my school supplies and birthday cakes. We didn’t have much, but I never felt like I lacked anything. When I graduated, he was right there in the front row, clapping the loudest. Looking at him that day, I realized how much he had done for me—and how grateful I am that he never stopped trying.”
GO, BABY, GO: [4:49] – There are no powered wheelchair options for small children. This man fills the gap. I was thinking, “This is so cool,” until he got to how they modify them to also promote the individual kid’s rehabilitation goals. Now I need a tissue.
LAWFARE: President Donald Trump has pardoned Michelino Sunseri, calling his case a “prime example of excessive prosecution” and an example of regulatory overreach that burdens everyday Americans. Michelino Sunseri was convicted in 2024 of having briefly used an old trail that had technically been closed in the 1980s. However, the only indication that the trail was closed were two small forty-year-old signs. Morever, the trail had long been used by hikers and runners without the park service caring.
Sunseri was charged under 36 CFR § 2.1(b), a rule barring walking in nondesignated parts of protected areas, punishable by a fine and up to six months in jail. Prosecutors offered Sunseri a plea deal requiring him to pay a $5,000 fine and accept a five-year ban from Grand Teton National Park. Sunseri said no, because he is a local member of the community who regularly runs in the park.
He offered instead to perform community service and assist in closing or rehabilitating the trail. The National Park Service withdrew support for the prosecution, but federal attorneys pressed ahead with what Cato legal fellow Mike Fox called a case of “vindictive prosecution.”
Sunseri and his lawyers expressed gratitude for the president’s pardon, but noted “it never should’ve gotten this far.” Indeed.
NUMISMATICS: The U.S. Mint began producing pennies between 1792 and 1793. Due to inflation, it now costs more to make a penny than a penny is worth, so on Wednesday, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach hit a button to strike the final penny saying, “God bless America, and we’re going to save the taxpayers $56 million.” Officials said the final few pennies will be auctioned off to collectors.
PLAYING THE AIR: [4:22] – The Mascots are studying unusual musical instruments this month and I am absolutely captivated by this one. It looks like the soloist is just pretending to play an instrument. But she isn’t. Her instrument is called a theremin. It is an electronic musical instrument named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.
The two metal antennas you can see in the video each function as one half of a capacitor, with the thereminist’s hands functioning as the other half. One antenna controls frequency, while the other controls volume.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Holy Spirit, Breathe life into our nation once more. Sweep from city to city, breaking spiritual apathy and stirring hearts to repentance. Let Your glory fill our land. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SECRET SANTA: [5:27] – One commenter posted, “These are how I start my day now.” Indeed. The person behind these gifts blesses so many more than the families in the videos.
TRANS: According to multiple large-scale surveys, non-binary and transgender identification among teens and college students peaked in 2023 and has fallen by half ever since.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Prepare us now for when You return. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BBC: Last week, The Telegraph reported that the BBC’s premiere investigative program, the longest-running in the world, deceptively edited Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021, to make it seem like he called for violence at the Capitol.
Both the BBC Director General Tim Davie & News CEO Deborah Turness have been forced to resign. Trump’s lawyers have also sent a letter to the BBC, demanding the network retract “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” made about Trump that were “fabricated and aired by the BBC”
“Failure to comply will leave President Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to recover damages for the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that the BBC has caused him to suffer, with all rights and remedies being expressly reserved by President Trump.”
CATHOLIC: Please pray a Hail Mary for an increase in vocations to the priesthood.
CORNELL: Cornell University has agreed to pay the federal government a $30 million fine over three years and the DOJ has agreed to stop investigating all the ways the university has violated federal civil rights laws. Federal grants (about $250 million) to the institution will thus be unfrozen.
N.b., I chose the graphic above because it shows the building where Dearest and I first met in January 1979 and where we were joined in holy matrimony on October 13 of that same year.
EVERYDAY HEROES: “Mister, I miss my sisters,” my youngest said that first night. My name’s Marcus, and I grew up in foster care. I still remember the night they split me from my little brother, Aaron. That sound of him crying through the wall never left me. I promised myself that if I ever got the chance, no kid would go through that again. Years later, I became a foster parent. The first children who came were three brothers—Jayden, Malik, and Noah. They were polite, quiet, and scared to unpack. Then I found out they had two sisters, Ava and Chloe, living in different homes across town. That same night, Jayden looked up and said those words: “Mister, I miss my sisters.” I started calling everyone I could—social workers, agencies, judges. I begged until all five kids could live under one roof. The day they walked through my door together, the house finally sounded like home. When the adoption became official, all five stood beside me in court. I looked at them, and I told them, “You’ll never be apart again.”
FIFTY-YEAR MORTGAGES: “This just means your house will be owned by the bank until you die, and after. We don’t need 50 year mortgages. Get the illegal immigrants out of our country. Give America back to Americans.” ~ Matt Walsh
NYC: “Mamdani is going to run out of other people’s money much faster than other communists … because people in NYC are allowed to flee.” ~Nick Freitas
OBAMACARE: [5:17] – Democrats are blaming the sudden and very steep rise in Obamacare premiums on Republicans. But Republicans opposed Obamacare from the start. The shutdown during Trump’s first term was their attempt to scuttle it before it did irreparable damage to our health care system. The Obamacare premium subsidies, which are expiring, were also voted in by Democrats with the expiration date they’re now blaming on Republicans.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Lord Almighty, we place our nation under Your mighty protection. Defend our borders, our cities, and our people from every form of danger—whether seen or unseen. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
PROGRESSIVES: These are the people who keep saying MAGA is a cult.
S&G: One of the largest branches of the German Protestant church has defended a pastor after she blessed a relationship between four men and declared the “polycule” was married “in the eyes of God.”
The event occurred at a “pop-up wedding festival” at the St Paul the Apostle church in Berlin which was offering free blessings for those who wished to avoid “lengthy formalities.”
The pastor said, “You could see right away that there was so much love between them. Why should God have anything against there being four of them rather than two?”
Maybe for the same reason He should have everything against treating marriage like it’s a sideshow carnival attraction.
TENNESSEE: [:35] – In addition to locating and safely returning 101 missing children as of Sunday, Nov. 9, the U.S. Marshals Task Force has arrested 2,342 individuals on various charges, clearing more than 1,000 warrants in 41 days.
BOOTYJUDGE: Yesterday morning during a live CNN interview with Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), Jake Tapper said that Pete Buttigieg had accused Kennedy of being “out of touch, behind the times” and that Kennedy “should do [his] homework.”
Kennedy pulled a sheet of paper out of his jacket pocket and read, “Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg. Mayor of South Bend, population 103,000 — smaller than Baton Rouge’s airport. Oversaw 1,000 potholes fixed… in eight years. Left office with a 38% approval rating. Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey — fancy words for ‘I’ve never met a payroll I couldn’t consultant away.’ High-speed rail plan: $2.1 billion for 12 miles of track that still ain’t laid. Current job: shows up to disasters after the cameras leave.”
The senator then folded the paper and said, “Jake, tell Pete I did my homework. Tell him when he can run a city bigger than a Cracker Barrel parking lot, maybe then he can tell Louisiana how to spend our money. Till then, bless his heart.”
Buttigieg’s communications team later called Kennedy’s remarks “childish.” Kennedy responded, “Son, childish is promising trains that never leave the station.”
On November 5 in Chicago, agents attempted to make a “targeted traffic stop” on a vehicle registered to Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, an illegal alien from Colombia. Rather than comply, Santillana Galeano and the man who was driving the vehicle sped away. Pulling into a shopping plaza, the two fled the vehicle and ran into the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center where they attempted to barricade themselves.
Fortunately, they were blocked from endangering the children by a set of locked inner doors and agents were able to apprehend the woman inside the vestibule. Video of them wrestling her, screaming and struggling, out the front doors went viral, with flaming headlines about a “day care teacher” having been “violently” arrested in front of her young students.
FACT ONE: The woman, who was not a teacher or an employee at the day care center, fled from a lawful traffic stop, then attempted to endanger children to evade arrest.
FACT TWO: ICE agents never entered the classrooms to arrest her.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, We pray in a special way today for all of our veterans, particularly those who are still suffering ill effects related to their time in service. Help them. Heal them. And grant them all eternal life. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SECRET SANTA: [5:00] – Another good one.
TARIFFS: On Sunday, Trump announced his plan to spread the t ariff wealth around in the form of dividend checks to all but high-income Americans.
BANKING SCANDAL: [3:45] – If Trump hadn’t won, this would have gotten worse.
BORDER: U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they had the lowest number of border encounters in any October ever. They also say that, for the past six months, there have been zero releases into the U.S. to await hearings.
“Our mission is simple: secure the border and safeguard this nation. And that’s exactly what we are doing. No excuses. No politics. Just results delivered by the most dedicated law-enforcement professionals in the country. We’re not easing up — we’re pushing even harder.” ~ CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott
DOGE: This past week, agencies ended another $648 million in wasteful spending. Canceled contracts included $456,000 to provide “24/7 FM broadcast service in hosting, operations, technical, and maintenance support in Juba, South Sudan.” The previous week, agencies ended wasteful contracts worth $160 million. These included $8.7 million for “FM and television broadcast operations in Iraq, Libya, and Chad.” The week before that, agencies terminated 150 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers $240 million. These included $276,000 for the “Armenian radio program.”
I asked Grok why we’re spending millions on radio programming in third world countries. The response was, “These efforts, which date back to the 1980s, aim to promote democracy, governance, and human rights by supporting independent media in fragile or authoritarian-leaning environments.” Like so much the federal government does to throw out money around without much accountability, it sounds good in the mission statement. BUT, and it’s a big one … the money has been managed by USAID which has been issuing it to NGOs.
NO ONE LIKE TRUMP: [9:08] – He’s forcing Democrats to defend Big Insurance.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Heavenly Father, Raise up the youth of our great nation and fill their hearts with love for truth and justice. Amen.
SECRET SANTA: [7:26] – The end is the best part. 🙂
SCHUMER SHUTDOWN: Last night, enough Democrats crossed the aisle to end the filibuster. Today, the Senate will reconvene to end the longest, dumbest shutdown in our nation’s history.
USMC: [14:34] – Happy 250th birthday, Marines! I suddenly got choked up when he mentioned the yellow footprints at Parris Island. My baby girl stood on those. She later met President Bush on the White House lawn. I need a tissue. ❤
BABY ORCA: Whale watchers in Norway were observing a group of orcas when the water around the animals suddenly turned crimson with blood. They assumed they were watching a feeding frenzy … until a little head popped up. They watched in awe as the new mama and her midwives carried the newborn calf on their backs, holding it above water for air, until it was ready to breathe and swim on its own. These are the first known photos of an orca birth in the wild.
FLORIDA: A new state law goes into effect allows a jury to recommend the death sentence for sexual battery on a child under the age of 12. It passed out of the Legislature with support from both parties in both chambers, was signed by Gov. DeSantis in May, and went into effect last month.
IDAHO: CLICK https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1986106156087964107 [:56] to hear the new mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Dan Gookin, sneer at his constituents. “Christian conservatives are mindless, cult-member morons. They are white, racist supremacists. They can fuck themselves and go to hell.”
ILLINOIS: The state is one signature away from making euthanasia legal. Peter Heck writes, “On paper, of course, the bill includes guardrails: witness requirements, assurances that no doctor will be forced to participate, etc. But the history of assisted suicide laws – domestically in places like Oregon and Washington, or internationally in places like Canada and Belgium – demonstrates how unreliable those guardrails end up being. First they bend, then loosen, then erode.”
When I was a teenager, my mother told me we should never legalize abortion, because it would lead to euthanasia. She was more right than she knew. As with abortion, they use phrases like “dignity” and “choice,” but what it eventually boils down to is “convenience” and “cost.”
MELATONIN: A large new study revealed that adults with insomnia who used melatonin for a year or longer faced a significantly higher risk of developing heart failure when compared to insomniacs who did not use melatonin long-term.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: “Stacie” Marie Laughton, who was as the first elected transgender official in a state house of representatives, has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children this week. The Democrat, who was born Barry Laughton Jr., had more than 10,000 text messages on his phone discussing and transferring photographs of children. At least four were sexually explicit images of children who appear to be approximately three to five years old. The texts also included explicit descriptions of sex with children. The sexual exploitation charge carries at least 15 years in prison, up to 30, and five years supervised release.
NO KINGS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dWyPW4hqMYg to watch one of my favorite scenes in any movie ever. The pompous professor reminds me, at heart, of all the elitists currently running the Democratic Party. The only difference is in the accents they use as they tell us we’re too stupid to govern ourselves.
OHIO: CLICK https://x.com/Thefactsdude/status/1986750481709101194 [1:15] to watch the body cam footage from officers who responded to a call concerning a “male with a cowboy hat riding a whitish bull up and down the parking lot” outside a Walmart. The rider told police he was passing through town for a rodeo event at Garwood Arena in Columbiana this weekend. The situation ended without incident, but not before one of the responding officers climbed onto the bull for a photo (above).
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, We lift up those who are struggling to put food on the table this month. Provide for their needs and move the hearts of 5 Democrats to vote to end the shutdown. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SNAP: On Nov. 7, partial benefits went out to food stamp recipients and the Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a judge’s order that requires the federal government to fully fund food stamps in November. SCOTUS issued a late-night order also on the seventh, giving the court time to consider the case.
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted, “A single district court in Rhode Island should not be able to seize center stage in the shutdown, seek to upend political negotiations that could produce swift political solutions for SNAP and other programs, and dictate its own preferences for how scarce federal funds should be spent.”
The Hodge Twins posted, “Democrats are in TOTAL UPROAR after the Supreme Court drops a bombshell ruling that President Trump CAN’T just hand out SNAP benefits willy-nilly until Congress actually funds the government—for now, at least.
“They’ve been screaming ‘No Kings in America!’ from the rooftops, but now they’re flipping out because they can’t force Trump to act like some all-powerful monarch pulling money out of thin air!
“Hypocrisy at its finest—you seriously can’t make this level of clownery up.”
TRUMP: I saw this on Facebook – After a man fainted in the Oval Office today, President Trump personally called the man’s wife to calm her down.
Dr. Oz: “I saw that he was starting to fall back a bit and then fall forward. You know, that wobbliness is never a good scene, especially in the Oval Office where usually you have attention being, you know, standing upright. So I grabbed him—the most important thing you learn in medical school, but you should learn it if you’re not a doctor as well, is just get people to the ground safely. So I bear-hugged him, and with some colleagues who were standing next to me, Secretary Kennedy and others, we lowered him slowly to the ground. So far, he’s doing well.
“But I’ll tell you a story that speaks loudly to the kind of person the President is. So I wanted to speak to the wife, to let her know what was happening, but also comfort her. And the President saw me in the corner, and he came over and said, “Who are you talking to?” I said, “Sir, she’s pretty upset, I’m talking to the wife.” And he said, “Give me that phone.”
“He talked to her and got her much calmer than I could have ever done. And I just think he’s just a wonderful human being that he would take time. He could have gone up and done 10 other things, but he actually cared that the wife of a man who he’s never met before felt in a safer place. He remembers the forgotten folks.”
CATHOLIC: [9:56] – An excellent explanation for the recent Vatican document rejecting the title “Co-Redemptrix” for Mary.
FYI: Muslims are not here to assimilate. They are here to take over. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/801577238903467 to hear what the Muslim mayor of Dearborn, MI, said to a Christian constituent.
HATERS: @Tribalism posted, “People are already attacking RFK Jr. and President Trump for how they handled the CEO collapsing today, so let’s set the record straight. It’s been reported RFK Jr. immediately ran to get help. He’s not a doctor and in a medical emergency, the best thing you can do is step aside and let trained professionals in. President Trump stayed where he was because it’s a security concern. Honestly, the Secret Service should’ve moved him out right away and leaving him there was a mess up by them. Both men handled the situation exactly how they should have. Don’t let clippers or the media twist it into something it’s not.”
Comment from @jeannine90932: “From a nurse’s perspective, the actual doctor went to the patient immediately. They slid him down safely and started assessing the patient. Next is getting the AED and calling 911. They did what they were supposed to do.”
MAHA: President Trump announced that Medicare co-pays for drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity drugs will plummet from $1,350 to just $50 in January.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please end the shutdown. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SCOTUS: The Supremes delivered a victory to the Trump administration’s position that passports should identify people based only on biological sex. “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment.”
SHUTDOWN: The FAA and the Transportation Department have ordered traffic reductions at 40 airports. The reductions began at 4 percent on Nov. 7 and will be increasing to 6 percent by Nov. 11 and 8 percent by Nov. 13, before reaching 10 percent by Nov. 14. The reductions will occur between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. at each airport.
DAILY PRAYER: Eternal Father, We offer You today the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Your Son in atonement for the sins of all the world. Amen.
CATHOLIC: [8:10] – This is a good explanation for why our devotion to Mary is biblical.
COLORADO: Abortion is not only legal in Colorado at any and all stages of pregnancy, it is also explicitly protected as a right in the Colorado state constitution.
MINNESOTA: In June, during a Minnesota House of Representatives floor debate over Medicaid eligibility for illegal migrants. Democratic State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her said, “I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country. I tell you this story because I want you to think about who it is that you are calling illegal. My family was just smarter in how we illegally came here.”
Later that day, the state representative told a local news outlet that she and her parents were actually American citizens and that she had made the stunning claim in an attempt to inspire empathy from her GOP colleagues. In other words, she lied.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Merciful Father, Cleanse us from all unrighteousness and create in us clean hearts. Help our leaders and citizens to seek You with sincerity and truth. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
SECRET SANTA: [7:44] – Another good one. “I’ll do my best to pay it forward.”
GRAMMY NOTES: Mama Buzz keeps a prayer art journal. Above is the page she made after meditating on this quotation from St. Josemaria Escriva. “God is calling you to serve him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life. He waits for us every day, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fields, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work. Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.” (FYI: Papa Buzz is an active duty military man who has been tasked to fight wild fires on a number of occasions.)
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Teach us to be still and know You. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
DEMOCRATS: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has announced she will not seek her 21st term. S’about time. She’s 85 years old! She has been one of the people who helped the globalists move our nation from Reagan to Mamdani. CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1986094352951541858 [:24] to get what I mean.
HEALTH CARE: CLICK https://x.com/RealLindellTV/status/1986193403562893789 [1:13] to hear Hakeem Jeffries blame Republicans for the messes Obamacare and their open border freebies created. Democrats never have to take responsibility for the messes they create.
I truly hope all y’all who need to sign up for a new Medicare plan have an easier time of it than we did. They’re swamped and their computer system is glitchy. It took TWO HOURS. We already knew what plan we wanted before we called, so it was just a question of filling out forms. Two. Hours.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, End the shutdown and save us from socialism and Sharia. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SECRET SANTA: [5:06] – Another good one.
SHUTDOWN: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/39banyQwmWk to hear Sen. Kennedy describe the two bills he is placing before Congress today. Legislators work for We the People. Their JOB is to do the budgets on time. How DARE they shut down OUR business, because THEY did not do their jobs!! How much more offensive that they continue to draw salaries while the rest of the employees either work for nothing or are on furlough?!?!?!?!
TALK TO THE HAND: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rz2icYySZDg to hear a short discussion about the real meaning of compassion. Decades ago, I went to a clergy sexual abuse survivors retreat. The woman who specialized in this grueling work called this “entering into your darkness.” I think Jesus’s parable about the lost sheep speaks to this. So do the Works of Mercy. I’ve suffered from people doing this to me, but to be fair, I have also been in a few situations where I had NOTHING spare to offer someone who was hurting and had to push them away to protect myself.
WORST BOOK REVIEW EVER: Free Beacon’s review of Karine Jean-Pierre’s new book is so bad that Glenn Beck read it word-for-word on his show. It starts, “Karine Jean-Pierre can’t stop making history. Earlier this year, the former White House press secretary became the highest-ranking openly queer, French-born black woman with a hyphenated surname to publicly renounce the Democratic Party for being mean to Joe Biden. She is the only black female lesbian immigrant to publish a book about her time in the Biden administration. It is the worst political memoir ever written in the history of the English language.” You can read the rest at the link.
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